I study the human capital development and firm-worker matching processes for PhD economists.This group is useful for this purpose because the types of jobs they hold can be easily categorized and they have an observable roductivity measure (that is,publications.)I derive a two-period model to...

This paper studies life cycle creativity among Nobel laureate economists. We identify two distinct life cycles of scholarly creativity. Experimental innovators work inductively, accumulating knowledge from experience. Conceptual innovators work deductively, applying abstract principles. We find...